Curtis Warren is given 13 year prison sentence in 2014

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Curtis ‘Cocky’ Warren has only spent 14 years in prison over a plot to smuggle £1m of cannabis into Jersey. The 58-year-old criminal will face restrictions over any assets worth over £1,000, and face curbs on foreign travel as well as using phones, vehicles and the internet.

Alison Abbott, at the National Crime Agency (NCA), said: “Many career criminals regard prison as an interruption which rarely marks the end of their involvement in organised crime.

“Through our Lifetime Management programme we use [restrictions] as an extra layer of prevention.

“They ensure we firmly have these individuals on our radar, especially after prison, and anything that suggests that they’re slipping into old ways can be detected early on.”

Sources told Daily Mirror Warren is due to be automatically released next year. He will not have to go before the Parole Board because he is not serving a life sentence.

Warren, who at one point had an estimated fortune of £300million, was jailed in 2009 for the drug smuggle plot. 

But the drug baron is on a list published by the NCA this year of individuals involved in organised crime who have been issued with serious crime prevention orders.

In his case they include restrictions for five years after his release on his ability to use cars and property, borrow money, make transfers, hold trusts or shares and use foreign or virtual currency.

If he breaks the conditions Warren can be sent back to prison.

He is understood to be in HMP Long Lartin, a category A jail in Worcestershire and is expected to be moved to a lower category prison in the months before his release date next November.

Through the 1980s and 1990s, ‘Cocky’ Warren, as he became known, graduated from running nightclub doors, to armed robbery and then international drug trafficking.

In 1993, following the collapse of a drugs trial at Newcastle crown court, he was reported to have approached customs officers to tell them: “I’m off to spend my £87million from the first shipment and you can’t f****** touch me.”

In the mid 1990s Warren appeared in The Sunday Times Rich List, which stated as a property developer his fortune was estimated at £40 million. 

But it is alleged he has £198million squirrelled away – claims he denied in 2018.

Warren was convicted of trying to mastermind a £125million drugs shipment from the Netherlands into the UK and sentenced to 12 years in 1996.

In the Nieuw Vosseveld maximum security jail, Turkish prisoner Cemal Guclu attacked Warren.

He kicked his attacker, a convicted killer, in the head, killing him.

Warren claimed to have acted in self-defence, and got a further four years’ jail.

He was released in the summer of 2007 and sent back to Liverpool. Within weeks, he flew to Jersey, where he was jailed again.

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